Routing not working in Symfony 3.4

Question

I have created a new Symfony 3.4 project using:

composer create-project symfony/skeleton my-project

After that I added the following components:

composer require twig
composer require annotations
composer require maker

And created a Controller:

php bin/console make:controller

I added an action with a route "legal". Here is the DefaultController:

<?php

namespace App\Controller;

use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;

class DefaultController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * @Route("/", name="homepage")
     */
    public function index()
    {
        return $this->render('index.html.twig', [
            'controller_name' => 'DefaultController',
        ]);
    }

    /**
     * @Route("/legal", name="legal")
     */
    public function legal()
    {
        return $this->render('legal.html.twig', []);
    }
}

File config/routes.yaml:

#index:
#    path: /
#    defaults: { _controller: 'App\Controller\DefaultController::index' }

And config/routes/annotations.yaml:

controllers:
    resource: ../../src/Controller/
    type: annotation

When I access the homepage, no problem, the page is showing. But when I try the /legal page, I have a 404 :

Not Found - The requested URL /legal was not found on this server.

php bin/console debug:router shows the expected:

 ------------------ -------- -------- ------ -------------------------- 
  Name               Method   Scheme   Host   Path                      
 ------------------ -------- -------- ------ -------------------------- 
  homepage           ANY      ANY      ANY    /                         
  legal              ANY      ANY      ANY    /legal                    
  _twig_error_test   ANY      ANY      ANY    /_error/{code}.{_format}  
 ------------------ -------- -------- ------ -------------------------- 

I cleared the cache, with the console command and by removing the content of the var/cache directory. But still the 404.

I'm new to 3.4. Any ideas ? Thanks...

Answer 1

Well, as @Basel Issmail pointed out, Symfony/Flex doesn't create a .htaccess like the previous Symfony installer did, and I had forgotten it.

I just had a minimal Apache configuration file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /path/to/my-project/public
    ServerName myproject.localhost

    <Directory /path/to/my-project/public>
        Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

So I created the .htaccess file in /public/ (where the index.php file lies), and the minimal required configuration is something like:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    # Determine the RewriteBase automatically and set it as environment variable.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(/.+)/(.*)::\2$
    RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=BASE:%1]

    # If the requested filename exists, simply serve it.
    # We only want to let Apache serve files and not directories.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
    RewriteRule .? - [L]

    # Rewrite all other queries to the front controller.
    RewriteRule .? %{ENV:BASE}/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

The missing part was to rewrite all queries (except existing files like assets) to index.php, for Symfony to handle the route.

--- Edit ---

Instead of manually creating the .htaccess, you can also just use a symfony flex recipe:

composer require apache-pack

This will install this .htacess file.